| REBECCA
THOMPSON currently
teaches music at Kentucky Country Day School and serves at Second
Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky as director of the Carol
and Chapel Choir. She is Founding Director of the Los Angeles Children's
Chorus, past Children's Chorus Mistress for the Los Angeles Music
Center Opera Company, and was Associate Director of the Appalachian
Children’s Chorus in West Virginia. Her community based choirs have
toured internationally, won national competitions, been honored
to sing at Kodaly and American Choral Director's Association National
Conventions, and appeared in films and commercials. Rebecca has
conducted festivals and workshops in over thirty states.
Professionally,
Rebecca has served the American Choral Director's Association (ACDA)
as Women's Choir Chair for the state of West Virginia, President
of West Virginia Chapter of ACDA, and Western Division ACDA Children's
Choir Chair. She has served on the National Board of The Presbyterian
Association of Musicians and on the National Chorister's Guild Board.
Rebecca has been a teacher for over thirty years in serving private,
public and parochial schools as well as church choirs. She has taught
pre-school through university choral music education.
Rebecca and
her husband Dean Thompson moved to Louisville in 2004 when Dr. Thompson
became President of Louisville Theological Seminary.
(12/03/2007)
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